All Quotes

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
‐‐ Pauline Kael

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.
‐‐ David Call

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
‐‐ Brett Ratner

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.
‐‐ Jessica Alba

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

Movies are too literal.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
‐‐ Yahoo Serious

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.
‐‐ Andy Garcia

Movies are very subjective.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.
‐‐ Dito Montiel

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
‐‐ D. W. Griffith

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
‐‐ James Mangold

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.
‐‐ Alison Owen

Movies by Carlos Saura and others had ghosts, memories from the past, that they used to make a political point. Things you couldn't talk about openly, you could speak of through ghosts.
‐‐ Juan Antonio Bayona

Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.
‐‐ Stephen Chbosky

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
‐‐ Aberjhani

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
‐‐ S. E. Hinton

Movies cater to what the audiences want.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

Movies don't have borders.
‐‐ Tahar Rahim

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
‐‐ Nancy Meyers

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
‐‐ Eazy-E

Movies don't sit in the theaters for an entire summer like they did in 1982. Now you've got a two- or three-week shelf life so you need to have that awareness right off the bat. And in order to make a lot of people know about your movie, you need to be out there banging the drum and showing your stuff.
‐‐ Joseph Kosinski

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.
‐‐ Ivan Reitman

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
‐‐ Peter Morgan

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

Movies have a way of distilling moments in our culture, and 'Gravity' may be the defining film for the lost-in-space year of 2013: Nothing works.
‐‐ David Ignatius

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
‐‐ Adam Beach

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
‐‐ Ken Follett

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.
‐‐ Gina Prince-Bythewood

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.
‐‐ Chris Rock

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.
‐‐ Jason Silva

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
‐‐ Richard Russo

Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
‐‐ Campbell Scott

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
‐‐ Owen Wilson

Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.
‐‐ Graham Hawkes

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.
‐‐ Jennifer Armintrout

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.
‐‐ Bel Powley

Movies make you immortal and ageless.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.
‐‐ James Surowiecki